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Posted in Education, Government, Politics, Society on Aug 19th, 2007
I cannot describe to you the relief that I feel having left teaching. I did it about 7 years ago now, and although I sometimes miss the classroom interaction (my students got very good at rendering me incapable of delivery by reducing me to tears of laughter), I do not miss the administrative and management [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Politics, Terrorism on Aug 8th, 2007
I may be wrong, but I often find that people who insist on taking a simple strong stance on something that others see as more complex, end up by either looking silly, or by later backing down. A case in point is the recent decision by the British Government to look again at the fate of five Guantanamo detainees who [...]
Posted in Government, Humanity, Morality, Politics on Aug 3rd, 2007
Poor Jacqui Smith. You get made Home Secretary. After years of political aspirations you come to power, and amongst other things, are given responsibility for drugs policy, and then within days, you have to admit that you smoked some pot at university. It would have been bad enough having to admit that in her former [...]
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